He announced on his twitter page that he will attend Eastern Kentucky of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) or Division I-AA. He will be eligible to play for one season in 2017.

In fact when I spoke to Boyle he was on campus and had all his stuff with him. There is a team meeting tonight and classes start Tuesday.

Boyle will re-start his college career as student at EKU and a member of the Colonels football team.

Just like that.

“It’s a combination of a couple of things,” Boyle told the Courant Monday. “I think UConn found their quarterback in Bryant [Shirreffs, a redshirt junior next season] and I think he’s going to do good things for UConn and I’m getting up there in age. I’m going to be true senior. Obviously being a football player you want to play football and EKU gives me an opportunity to do that.”

Boyle was very thankful and appreciative to the people he’s been around in Storrs.

“Nothing but respect for coach [Bob] Diaco and the staff and the players they all handled it great. They were very helpful with the process for me after I told them I wanted to look around for other schools,” Boyle said. “I just wanted to play football. I’m a football player. I want to go out there and throw the ball and win games, every football player wants to do that but I have nothing but good things to say about UConn right now. I look forward to the next step in my life.”

Storrs was the place where Boyle wanted to be. Remember he de-committed from Boston College before coming to UConn.

“It’s tough,” he said. “I wanted to come to UConn, being an in-state guy, try to help the program reach new heights and I think a lot of people came to UConn for that reason. Obviously I wish things would have been better. I wish things were a little bit more…like when I got there Coach P [Paul Pasqualoni] was there and the coach [T.J.] Weist was the interim and then Coach Diaco go hired so it’s three different coaches, three different coordinators, three different quarterback coaches.

“It’s been disappointing just knowing that I couldn’t reach my full potential at UConn and that has nothing to do with the coaching staff or the players. That has to do with me and my game and where I stand but it’s frustrating knowing that you have the potential and the ability to do good things on the field and for it to not happen like it did, it’s frustrating but you have to take the good with the bad and learn from it.”

How and why EKU?

Well, Boyle reached out to former quarterbacks coach Shane Day, now the tight ends coach with the Dolphins who suggested new Colonels coach Mark Elder the former Tennessee assistant who was hired by EKU in December.

“At one point Towson was there, Wagner, Bryant, because I wanted to stay local at first but branch out toward end of the process. I’m actually on my visit now. I’m officially part of the team now.”